I have spent my career trying to get Congressmen to spend the people's money as if it were their own. But I have failed.

The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking, and is voting for the other guy.

The poor taxpayer may wipe his shoes on a $3 doormat when he goes home, but not the Navy. It is, damn the cost, full feet ahead on a doormat you would be ashamed to get muddy.

The limousine is the ultimate ego trip, the supreme sign of success. It shouts: Hey, this guy is really and truly Mr Big.

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

It's hard enougth to find intelligent life right here in Washington!

As chairman of the Senate subcommittee responsible for NASA appropriations, I say not a penny for this nutty fantasy.

I doubt if there is any occupation which is more consistently and unfairly demeaned, degraded, denounced, and deplored than banking.

The recommended daily allowances are based on arbitrary, unscientific, and tainted standards.

What would it be like if I were free, not enslaved by my conditioning?

I have not encouraged talk about man’s holy privacy, although I do respect and defend man’s right to have it.

God hates those who praise themselves.

What's important is that children have an opportunity to bond with the natural world, to learn to love it and feel comfortable in it, before being asked to heal its wounds.

I always figure I have this tree and there's always some green fruit that's not ready to pick or blossoms that are ready to flower; there are always some ready to drop off too.

I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the habit of assembling

Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always. Always.

Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all.

Some say opportunity knocks only once, that is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.